metarelate

metarelate is a knowledge base system for managing metadata translations.

To contribute to a translation project, the static data from that project should be used to populate a local triple store which the management software may access.

Dependencies

• Apache Jena - http://jena.apache.org/
• Fuseki - http://jena.apache.org/documentation/serving_data/
• Python - http://python.org/
• Django - https://www.djangoproject.com/

Installation

• Apache Jena - http://jena.apache.org/
  1. Download the 'apache-jena' release from http://www.apache.org/dist/jena/binaries/
  2. Unpack the archive
• Fuseki - http://jena.apache.org/documentation/serving_data/
  1. Download the 'jena-fuseki' release from http://www.apache.org/dist/jena/binaries/
  2. Unpack the archive
• Python - http://python.org/
  1. install Python = 2.7
• Django - https://www.djangoproject.com/
  1. install Django >= 1.3
• pydot - https://code.google.com/p/pydot/
  1. install pydot >= 1.0
• Configure the metarelate metarelate software
  1. lib/metarelate/etc/site.config provides paths to libraries and static data
  2. see lib/metarelate/etc/README.md

Configuration

Local configuration files are required to set up a metarelate environment:

• ./lib/metarelate/etc/site.cfg
• see ./lib/metarelate/etc/sample.site.cfg
• ./lib/metarelate/editor/settings_local.py
• see ./lib/metarelate/editor/sample_settings_local.py
• environment variables are used by each session to link to a local static data store and triple store:
• METARELATE_STATIC_DIR
• METARELATE_TDB_DIR
• METARELATE_DATA_PROJECT

Editor

• To run the editor application:
  1. ./run_mr_editor.py

Application Programming Interface

The API provides a Python interface to the knowledge base.

To use the API, create an instance of the metarelate.fuseki.FusekiServer class, as detailed in the API documentation.